China boosters and alarmists alike see China as the rising power of the twenty-first century, a country that will inexorably expand to challenge the United States and overturn the existing world order ...

The machines are just one of the ways in which the world economy is responding to a demographic earthquake. After 60 years in ...

Please click below to find out more information about the courses and programmes available at Undergraduate and Masters levels. There are no bespoke degrees in historical economic demography at LSE, ...

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Slower growth in the working-age population is a problem in much of the country. Could targeted immigration policy help solve it? By Neil Irwin For many years, American economists have spoken of Japan ...

This webinar will be the launch of Alexander Hamilton's latest report 'Is Demography Destiny? The Economic Implications of Iraq's Demography' published under the LSE Conflict Research Programme–Iraq.

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

IT IS HARD to keep up with the protest movements under way around the world. Large anti-government demonstrations, some peaceful, some not, have in recent weeks clogged roads on every continent: ...

MILTON FRIEDMAN once compared the business cycle to an elastic string stretched on a board. How far the string is plucked determines how much it springs back; similarly, the depth of a recession ...